Tips on how to stay secure when using Wi-Fi hotspots

By Aditi | September 30, 2010 12:36 pm |
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WIFI-005 Most users face the risk of security as they use plain text for their email and for surfing the internet. As Wi-Fi hotspots are mostly unprotected users have to be extra careful when they use Wi-Fi hotspots. The radio signals can easily be picked up by anyone around and users have to compromise with both their privacy and security. It is especially dangerous when one uses public hotspots for shopping and banking. Therefore one has to make sure that they have their firewall running and also ensure that they disable their file and printer sharing.

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How to build a secure wireless office network?

By Aditi | August 24, 2009 11:00 am |
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People who have more than one computer at home must be aware that it can get really messy with all those wires around. So, you may as well be considering building a secure wireless network to do away with having to snake wires through your walls and to increase your mobility.

To connect your computers to internet without any wires, you will require a cable modem, a router, and a USB wireless adapter. You can get started by connecting your cable modem to the router with the Ethernet cable before you plug them in. You can then go ahead and install the USB wireless adapter by following the instructions that are mentioned in the CD that comes along with it.

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How To Secure Your Wi-Fi Network?

By Aditi | June 17, 2009 12:57 pm |
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Connecting to Wi-Fi hotspot is not as safe as we think and could cause a major security threat. However, we can apply some tips to nullify these threats. We should establish Virtual Private Connection (VPN) as it encrypts the network traffic. Besides, we must use SSL in case there is no VPN access. Applications such as ftp, telnet or imap should be avoided as there is no encryption of data in such applications.

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We can find out whether or not that the data which we send is encrypted by checking the browser, if it has https:// in the address bar or padlock icon towards the end of the browser. If we see these two things, it means the page has encrypted data. We must not connect to any fake Wi-Fi hot spot as it would lead to personal account information getting leaked. Make suet the service provider is reliable.

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